bea·dle /ˈbidḷ/
小吏,遊行領隊
Bea·dle n.
1. A messenger or crier of a court; a servitor; one who cites or bids persons to appear and answer; -- called also an apparitor or summoner.
2. An officer in a university, who precedes public processions of officers and students. [Eng.]
Note: ☞ In this sense the archaic spellings bedel (Oxford) and bedell (Cambridge) are preserved.
3. An inferior parish officer in England having a variety of duties, as the preservation of order in church service, the chastisement of petty offenders, etc.
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beadle
n 1: a minor parish official who serves as an usher and preserves
order at services
2: United States biologist who discovered how hereditary
characteristics are transmitted by genes (1903-1989) [syn:
George Beadle, George Wells Beadle]